Neil Stevens is wrong.
From Redstate.com:
It doesn’t even cross their minds that we might ask Google not to build the database to begin with, because it’s a basic law of databases that they can always be put to another purpose.
I can’t argue with the sentiment. Google creeps me out more every day. The problem is that Redstate.com uses Google Analytics. They effectively tell Google every time you visit their site.
When this is pointed out by commenters, the response is .. well,
You are spreading outright falsehoods through your repeated assertion that the data we’re talking about is from httpd logs.
And combined with your radical pacifist ranting before, I’ve had it with you.
Hit the contact form if you feel you’ve been wronged.
and …
You can’t be this stupid
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I’d rather everyone get along, but I’ll settle for everyone united in hating me for being a jerky moderator.
Sorry, Neil, you are the moron here. Here’s the thing: Webserver logs tell me an awful lot about what goes on here. Once you leave my site I’ve no idea where you go or what you do. Now, if everyone hands this data over to a single entity (Google in this case), then they can plot your course across the internet. Enough logs and they can tell, when and where you work, where you live, given enough data they could tell you what time you take lunch.
The reason server logs are not dangerous is NOT because there’s not enough information in them, it is because the information is split up amongst thousands of different places.
In the interest of full disclosure, I used Google Analytics here for a few days. It made me feel dirty so I removed it. I use Awstats.
Where are we going ?
… and why are we in this handbasket ?
Drop the Weapon! Drop the Weapon! *BANG*
From Gothamist:
Just how little tolerance is zero tolerance? A Staten Island fourth-grader was reprimanded and almost suspended yesterday when the principal spotted him playing with a LEGO policeman and a two-inch-long toy gun during lunch, the Advance reports.
Under the city’s no-tolerance policy regarding guns in schools, PS 52 Principal Evelyn Matroianni brought 9-year-old Patrick Timoney to her office and called his mother to say the boy might be suspended for carrying the miniature toy gun to school, pending the approval of the Department of Education’s security administrator. When contacted, the administrator reportedly said the toy should be confiscated and returned to the boy’s parents, however no other punishment would be necessary.
How much would you pay for this kinda crazy ? Wait, don’t answer yet, there’s more …
From the NYDailyNews:
A Michigan kindergartener’s make-believe gun – which he created with just his fingers – got him suspended, the Grand Rapids Press reported.
Mason Jammer, 6, who attends Ionia’s Jefferson Elementary School, pointed his finger-gun at a fellow student Wednesday and got kicked out of school till Friday.
School officials said they had given Mason numerous warnings over several months, and his gun play created discomfort for other kids.
Now how much would you pay ? If you order this insanity in the next 5 minutes we’ll throw in this beautiful piece of shit:
a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,” the bill, A. 10129 , states in part.
Sometimes its hard to even joke about this shit.
Star Trek
Stolen from ClamBake 6’s site:
I’m a big fan of all things Star Trek. Yes great fun has been made of the bad special effects and the mostly bad acting, but Star Trek really was/is an important work. Generally, I equate TV or movies to photographs or paintings but some some television shows or movies equate more to the level of literature. I’m not saying Star Trek was great writing or acting, but taken as a whole work I will say that it is important to human culture as any piece of literature. I could mention the race/ethnicity/nationality of the crew as example of its importance as most people do. I could mention the importance of such a ‘positive’ science fiction television show aired as it was during the Space Race. But I won’t (although I sorta just did).
People
I try to be a nice person, I really do. People make it awful hard sometimes.
People suck. Your average person is a decent enough fellow, but people … well, they suck.
The hardest part about getting along in society is trying to not treat a person like you’d treat people. As hard as it is sometimes, you have to treat every person as an individual. A completely new encounter.
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I’m not explaining this right at all. No matter how many people blow right past you when you hold a door for them, never expect the next person to do the same. That 1 in 100 is maybe going to say ‘Thank You’ (rare these days, I know), but more importantly that 1 in 100 might think, just somewhere in the back of his mind, ‘Not everyone’s a dick.’ No matter how shitty a day you’ve had, no matter how pissed off you are that the guy in line ahead of you has 35 items in the fucking express lane you truly have to give your best effort to not lump everyone you meet in with the assholes.
In a way, this is very much the same phenomena as racism. I mean, racism is essentially expecting every member of a race to behave in a certain way. It is just as easy, or hell, even easier, to expect ever person to act the same as every other asshole you’ve ran across today.
I can’t honestly suggest that you treat every individual you encounter in the course of your day equally as if you’ve not encountered any number of assholes before but in the interest of civility I ask that you try. I try. I don’t always succeed and I often find myself being someone else’s asshole but I do try. I suggest you do the same.
You should not read this as a plea to everyone to be a doormat. I’m suggesting no such thing. If some asshole knocks into you in his hurry to get who-gives-a-shit-where and you feel the need to say, “Hey, fuckstick, watch where you’re walking.” by all means, let loose. All I’m suggesting is to not be the first asshole.
When I was in the police academy (yeah, there’s a bit of personal history) we were taught to always let the other guy dictate your behavior. Essentially, this means that you approach every encounter at a normal human polite level of behavior and you leave it to the other guy to decide whether or not you’ll get nicer or turn into a complete dick that just beat him senseless.
This really turned into a whole lot more of a ramble than I first intended.
Affirmative Action, Version 3.9
Living here in Texas, being of Hispanic descent, I get to see a microcosm of Affirmative Action up close and personal. I hate it. All Affirmative Action has managed to do is further divide Americans into categories: those who ”need help to succeed” because they are an accepted minority, and those who don’t, because they are not. So, I was not completely surprised to see this pop up in my great state:
Texas Group Seeks to Boost Number of Latino Teachers
Innocuous at first, isn’t it? It gets better:
Despite the fact that Hispanic students now make up more than half of all of the students in Texas’ public schools, there is a serious lack of Latino teachers, and the Texas Center for Education Policy is looking for ways to add to their number
Ahhh…the Center for Education Policy. To say it is left-of-center is to not give it enough Marxist credit. Ok, so what do they plan to do about the “shortage” of Latino teachers?
Angela Valenzuela of the Center says a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation aims to change those ratios.
“An understanding of the community, what they can’t offer in universities, is the kind of knowledge that connects to English language development, to language acquisition, the particular challenges that language minorities face in our public school system,” she says.
A grant from the even-further-left Ford Foundation to…..do what, exactly? How can they change those ratios? By putting a gun to the Dean of Education in any university and forcing him/ her to graduate only Latinos? That’s not too far off…..they are going to re-assert Affirmative Action into the teacher hiring system, as if it weren’t there already. Imagine to what lengths they will go in order to be effective in raising the ratios.
Valenzuela says many scholars think one reason the Hispanic drop out rate remains high and other efforts to cut it haven’t borne much fruit can be traced to the lack of Hispanic teachers, especially in barrio schools.
“What we know from research is that if you go back to your community to teach, you are likely to go into a hard to staff school, and you are more likely to stay longer that school (if you’re Hispanic) because you can connect to the children, you share the same culture, you share a similar language.”
BULL-FUCKING-SHIT. The only motivation I ever needed to learn English, and then do well in school, was my parents’ rather loving threat to send me back to Puerto Rico to live with my grandmother. End of fucking story. Whether these drop-out wannabes have a Latino teacher is beside the point. If the parental units are not involved/ present, it will affect the kid. I don’t need studies to tell me that. I have seen it, up close and personal. And this crap about sharing a common language is just that: CRAP. Any teacher that has to take time off her schedule to speak in Spanish to a kid that doesn’t know much English will not be an effective teacher. Again, up close and personal. As an afterthought, Ms. Valenzuela throws a bone to the rest of our non-Latino teachers:
She stresses Anglo and African-American teachers are very dedicated and in most cases they bring a huge amount of cultural sensitivity to Hispanic students.
Oh yeah? If you believe that, then why the fuck do you need more Latino teachers??
Why do enviro-weenies hate dogs ?
I’m sure everyone has heard the “eat your dog” thing making the rounds on the interwebs. It really isn’t the first time it has come up, not the eating them, but the “dogs are bad” thing. It really makes one wonder why the militant greenies hate dogs.
I know why they hate dogs. To them dogs are unnatural.
Booze
I’d like to be completely clear: ANY BOOZE IS BETTER THAN NO BOOZE.
Moses brought up an interesting point. I pretty well slammed the Red Stag from Jim Beam. My final opinion of it was that bourbon should not be flavored at all… under any circumstances.
Moses pointed out that he is a college age fellow and that pretty much “booze is booze”. I honestly cannot disagree with this assertion. When I was young, any form of ethanol was “good enough”. For fuck’s sake lets think about some of the crap that we drank when we were young.
Women are Evil
Numbers don’t lie. The science is in. The debate is over
Prove it
I ran across a discussion yesterday regarding Sean Hannity saying that this year was cooler than any year in recent history. The initial discussion started by essentially calling Hannity a liar and a moron because “the science was clear”. The obvious first response to this was, “Yes, but your science is flawed and corrupt.” I’m not going to bother linking to the discussion directly as I don’t think it is really relevant. The very same type of discussion can be found pretty much anywhere you look.
So currently, here is where we stand: We have two separate (known) incidences of intentional fraud coupled (or caused by) corrupt or just plain shitty original datasets. Pretty much all of the AGW studies have one aspect in common: they all refuse to “show their work”.
Studies have shown that too much text is boring and people tend to skim over it without reading. Adding images is said to help focus the reader.
I’m going to show my work. Currently, 100% of the known studies “proving” AGW theories have been shown to be corrupt (both the Hadley CRU and New Zealand studies). What these studies have in common, aside from “proving” AGW, is that they refused to release their original data or methodologies. So, lets apply what we now know to the rest of the AGW studies. We can hypothesize, based on our current data, that studies that refuse to release their initial data or their methodologies used to arrive at their conclusions are frauds and/or corrupt. All of our currently available data shows this to be fact.
I’ve made my hypothesis, revealed the data I used in my experiments, and explained my conclusion. So if there’s anyone out there that would like to “prove my theory wrong”, you actually have an opportunity to do just that. However, I also require that you follow these simple rules of science when you attempt to prove it.
So, the answer to AGW followers is simple: Prove it. Nope, sorry you cannot go grabbing more studies and graphs where the initial data and methodologies have been kept secret as I’ve just proved that those are fraudulent.
I’m a drunken redneck with a high school education able to put this together within minutes of climbing out of bed and I’ve still not yet had my coffee. Science really isn’t that fucking hard.
Oh I wish…
Oh I wish everybody would just let this motherfucker fade away into obscurity.
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